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Public Opinion Poll Shows Deep‐Seated Conflict About Addiction as a Disease Internet Addiction Gains Attention as It Intersects with Other Problems Poll Highlights Do You Believe That Addiction Is — or Is Not — a Disease? Factors in Family Member's Drug or Alcohol Addiction GAO Recommends Monitoring Funds Made to Faith‐Based Organizations What Is an FBO? Substance Abuse Counseling Written into Federal Disaster Response Bill Plan for Disaster New CASA Survey Finds Most Parents Don't Know Teens Are Drinking or Using Drugs Briefly Noted Resources Grants and Funding Coming Up     

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Field Pleased With Medical Management, Other Provisions of Interim Final Rule With Budget Favoring Broad Programs, Will Addiction Needs be Protected? SSI and SSDI — Will it be More Open to Addicts, or Less? Join Together and CASA go Separate Ways Ohio Survey: Many People Don't Think Addiction is a Disease Briefly Noted State News Coming up     

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California Legislature Criticizes Lack of State Oversight over Addiction Counselors Don't Expect Overnight Success in the Effort to Master Billing In 42 CFR Part 2 Fight, Confidentiality Trumps Convenience Oregon Prison Counselors Want Raises in Exchange for Master's Requirement In Wake of Deaths, Oklahoma Law Requires Stricter Monitoring Insurers Setting Premiums Based on Interim Final Rule Briefly Noted Coming up     

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Premiums May Be Low, but Cost Sharing May Discourage SUD Treatment Insurance Contracts Don't Just Walk Through Your Doors Legal Action Center Expects Confidentiality to Be Preserved Clarification: SAMHSA May Change 42 CFR Part 2 Wording ‘Dear SAMHSA: Don't Walk Away From Recovery Month’ Hazelden and Betty Ford Center to Merge, Expand Outpatient State News Names in the News Coming up     

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Army Homicide Investigations Highlight Role of Unaddressed Substance Use House Appropriations Committee Clears Field‐Related Spending Bill Treatment Providers Don't Fare Too Badly in Conn. Budget Florida Drug Strategy Sets Goals for Treatment and Prevention Michael Jackson's Death Raises Questions About Abuse Potential of Propofol Briefly Noted State News Resources Call for Comments Coming up     

SAMHSA guidelines for recovery housing emphasize MAT

If there's any question about the appropriateness of medication‐assisted treatment (MAT) using methadone and buprenorphine for recovery housing residents, it has been settled by the most recent report from the federal government: Don't ban it, and, furthermore, do it.     

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Multiple Relapses and SUD Treatment: What's Going Wrong? When Entering a New Market, Don't Take Success for Granted ASAM Criteria: New Edition about Much More than Placement Florida Experts Condemn Florida Task Force Approach to Drug‐Exposed Newborns NIDA, CDC Support Onsite HIV Testing without Counseling Briefly Noted Names in the News Coming up     

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Hill to OMB: Don't Cut SAMHSA Prevention Funds Richmond Agency Serving Homeless Says Growth Will Fulfill Mission ONDCP Stresses Importance of Treatment, Not Incarceration Federal Agencies Release Third Set of FAQs on Parity OASAS to Fund Housing for NYC Homeless Families Briefly Noted Names in the News Coming up     

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New York Uses New Billing System to Improve Outpatient Treatment More Collaboration With SSAs Sought in Drug Court Program Development HIT Privacy Expert on Why Regs Are Not Enough Study Shows HIV Meds Don't Increase Drug Users' Risky Behavior ACLU Lawsuit Threat Halts Housing Drug‐Test Idea Letter to the Editor Briefly Noted In the States Coming Up     

“Now that we can ask and tell: The social movement legacy of the DADT repeal”

The 2010 Don't Ask Don't Tell Repeal Act, along with the 2016 DOD announcement regarding the impending inclusion of transgender soldiers, created the possibility of open and unsanctioned military service for LGBTQs for the first time in US history. This article provides an overview of how these policy changes came about, from the emergence of DADT to the legal and activist challenges to its legitimacy, including its ultimate repeal and the subsequent move to extend open service to transgender people. After summarizing what we know so far about how the repeal has (and has not) changed the experience of service for LGBTQs, I consider how these policy changes have been received and interpreted by LGBTQ activists and scholars. Open military service is either viewed as one of the most exciting or the most damning developments of LGBTQ organizing in the 21st century, according to the two most prominent activist perspectives. This review outlines the key arguments of each perspective and concludes by considering the value of reconciling these disparate vantage points when analyzing the future of LGBTQ social movement strategy.     

STRATEGIES FOR ENGAGING ADOLESCENT GIRLS AT AN EMERGENCY SHELTER IN A THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP: RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE GIRLS THEMSELVES

Engaging clients is an extremely important part of the therapeutic process. Although there is a literature on adult engagement, few articles discuss adolescent engagement. Those articles that do discuss adolescent engagement have been conducted from the perspective of adults. The purpose of this study was to explore, from the client's perspective, ways to engage and build a positive therapeutic alliance with adolescent girls. A focus group (N = 5) was conducted with residents of an emergency shelter for adolescent girls in an urban area. Clients were asked three questions: ‘If you could tell a counselor anything, what would you tell her/him?’ .‘What do counselors need to know?’ and ‘How can a counselor get you to talk?’ Seven messages emerged from the clients' responses, which focused on a request to be respected, listened to, and not judged. More specifically, themes included ‘Treat me like I'm on your level’, ‘Tell me a little about yourself’, ‘Ask my permission to take notes’, ‘Pay attention to what I'm saying’, ‘Tell me what you're doing’, ‘Don't tell me what's in my file’, and ‘Don't call me names’. Clients provided concrete ways in which social workers and other counseling professionals could better work with them.     

Don't Ask,Don't Tell and Other LGB Civil Rights Issues: Effects of Terminology on Public Opinion

“Don't Ask, Don't Tell” was devised to combat the perceived costs associated with gays and lesbians openly serving in the military, including low unit cohesion, damage to the military's reputation, and the general population's lack of acceptance for homosexuals serving (Belkin, 2008). However, recent polls and policy reversal have shown growing public support for homosexuals being allowed to serve openly. Interestingly, the amount of support has varied as a function of question wording. Two polls conducted by CBS News found support for homosexuals serving in the military varied with greater support for “gays and lesbians” compared to “homosexuals.” Two studies were conducted to further examine the effect of terminology on reported support. Two samples reported opinions for homosexual civil rights issues. Sexual orientation was described using the terms gay men and lesbians, homosexuals, gay men, or lesbians. Percentage differences were found to be greater than those reported in the CBS polls, as wording choice had an effect on reported openness regarding homosexual civil rights. These differences indicate that it is important to consider precise terminology usage when measuring opinions. Levels of support, stereotypes activated, and the relationship between support for civil rights and general levels of prejudice were examined.     

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Krokodil Media Frenzy Presents Misinformation When Complaints are Lodged Online, Don't Fail to Respond Study: Buprenorphine to Naltrexone Taper Effective for Some E‐Cigarette Use More than Doubles among Teens according to CDC States Rethinking Drug Testing for Welfare or Unemployment Teenagers in Child Welfare at Greater Risk of Substance Abuse Briefly Noted State News Names in the News Coming up     

A Quick Guide to Research Methods

In a hurry to understand that piece of research? Can't remember your undergraduate statistics lectures? Don't worry! Refer to this handy‐dandy quick reference for making sense of research design! Seriously. Too often when I am reading a research paper, terms are used which are either unfamiliar or ring only faint bells of recognition. I would like to have the capacity to remember everything I was taught, but apart from having a very bad memory, I am also beginning to suspect that it is actually better practice to check terms out even if I think that I remember what they mean.     

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Faces and Voices Wants to Accredit Peer Recovery Support Organizations Center Seeks Deeper Understanding of Why Clinicians Stay on Board Odyssey House Grant Uses Peers, Follows CCAR Model NAATP Survey Can Help HR Managers Benchmark Salaries Advance the Field, But Don't Forget the Consumer ATTC to Conduct First National Survey of Treatment Workforce Are 78,000 Counselors Represented in BLS Data Going to Keep Their Jobs? Obituary Coming up     

Alcohol reinforces both positively and negatively,complicating treatment

The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) and the Affordable Care Act of 2010 require insurance companies to provide parity for mental health and substance use disorders, but these laws, on the books for a decade, aren't being enforced. And insurance companies are taking advantage of this, leaving treatment centers one choice, according to attorney Matthew Lavin: to appeal until they win, and if they don't win, to sue.     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: The Sacred Willow: Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family Duong Van Mai Elliott, Cross‐Cultural Practice With Couples and Families Phillip Brown and John Shalett (Eds) Context: A Magazine for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice The Answer Within: A Family in Therapy Re‐Examined Moshe Lang and Peter McCallum. Time Bombs in Families and How to Survive Them Averil Earnshaw. Relationships into the New Millennium 1999: Papers to Celebrate 50 years of Relationships Australia Gail Bateman and D. Lamont. Narrative Counseling in Schools: Powerful and Brief: Practical Skills for Counselors J. Winslade And G. Monk. You Just Don't Listen: A Parent's Guide to Improving Communication Suzie Hayman.     

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Addiction Medication Marketplace: Opportunities for Drug Developers New SAMHSA Administrator Says Addiction Field not Secondary to MH Prospects Seem Promising for addictiona's Inclusion in Parity Bills Co‐Dependent No More celebrates 20th Anniversary Mental Health vs. Addiction Expenditures Briefly Noted Resources Coming up     

CARE Act: $100 billion bill still waiting for any action

The Comprehensive Addiction Resources Emergency (CARE) Act of 2019, introduced in the House of Representatives by the late Rep. Elijah Cummings (D‐Maryland) and in the Senate by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D‐Massachusetts) on May 8, still has a lot of support from the recovery community. But with Representative Cummings' death on Oct. 17 and Senator Warren's energetic campaign for the presidential nomination, it hasn't gotten much attention.